Clone

Clone your website to a staging area, migrate to a new host, or clone to an existing site. We do all the gritty work for you, just point us in the right direction.

Our new multi-language WP site hit a wall with our hosting provider. With ManageWP we replicated to several new providers, tested functionality and benchmarked in no time. Works fast for backups, upgrades and much more!

— Ricardo Menzies, Mercy Ships

Cloning a website allows you to in just seconds have a an identical copy of your website. Almost instantaneously clone your website to a staging area for testing, or to a new host, or even clone to an existing site. Restore and clone your backup. It’s a great tool that saves you time when creating new sites, or fixing old ones.

Clone feature comes bundled with the premium Backup add-on.

See it in action

Technical takeaways for nerds

Clone to different destinations

Select different types of destinations to clone to.

Full URL rewrite

When cloning a site all of your URL’s will be rewritten on your destination site

Easy clone to sites on ManageWP

You can clone to a Clean WordPress site on the ManageWP dashboard without the hassle of putting in your FTP credentials

Stage area always up-to-date

Set up and keep your staging area up-to-date

Switch hosts

Move WordPress websites to another host

Easy website deploy

Deploy template websites to your client

Website restore

Restore a website from a backup archive

Smart Clone

It compare the source and destination files. If they are the same, it skips them, and clones only the different files and the database

Reliable Clone

If the PHP process on the destination site is terminated before the files have been uploaded, the Clone tool falls back to FTP file transfer to complete the task.

Search engine (in)visibility

The option to discourage search engines from indexing the cloned website, in order to avoid the duplicate content penalty